By using XML API, I got date-time as "2008-02-05T12:50:00Z". Now I wanna convert this text format into different format like "2008-02-05 12:50:00". But I am getting proper way.
I have tried this one :: #a = "2008-02-05T12:50:00Z"
Steps
1. #a.to_date
=> Tue, 05 Feb 2008
2. #a.to_date.strftime('%Y')
=> "2008"
3. #a.to_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
=> "2008-02-05 00:00:00
Suggest some thing ?
The to_date method converts your string to a date but dates don't have hours, minutes, or seconds. You want to use DateTime:
require 'date'
d = DateTime.parse('2008-02-05T12:50:00Z')
d.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
# 2008-02-05 12:50:00
Use Ruby's DateTime:
DateTime.parse("2008-02-05T12:50:00Z") #=> #<DateTime: 2008-02-05T12:50:00+00:00 (353448293/144,0/1,2299161)>
From there you can output the value in any format you want using strftime. See Time#strftime for more info.
Related
I've got a bunch of user-inputted dates and times like so:
date = "01:00pm 06/03/2015"
I'm trying to submit them to a datetime column in a database, and I'm trying to systemize them like this:
DateTime.strptime(date, '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M')
But I consistently get an invalid date error. What am I doing wrong? If I submit the string without strptime the record will save but it sometimes gets the date wrong.
Also, how can I append a timezone to a DateTime object?
Edit:
So .to_datetime and DateTime.parse(date) work for the date string and fail for date2. What's going on?
date2 = "03:30pm 05/28/2015"
Try using to_datetime:
date.to_datetime
# => Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:00:00 +0000
Also if you read the documentation for DateTime#strptime, here. It states:
Parses the given representation of date and time with the given
template, and creates a date object.
Its important to note that the template sequence must match to that of input string sequence, which don't in your case - leading to error.
Update
Using to_datetime over second example will generate
ArgumentError: invalid date
This is because it expects the date to be in dd-mm-yy format. Same error will be raised for DateTime.parse as to_datetime is nothing but an api for the later. You should use strptime in-case of non-standard custom date formats. Here:
date2 = "03:30pm 05/28/2015"
DateTime.strptime(date2, "%I:%M%p %m/%d/%Y")
# => Thu, 28 May 2015 15:30:00 +0000
date = "01:00pm 06/03/2015"
DateTime.parse(date)
=> Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:00:00 +0000
You haven't got your parameters in the correct order.
DateTime.strptime(date, '%H:%M%p %m/%d/%Y')
You'll also need to add %p for the am/pm suffix
I have the following string as a date
Thu 17 Jan
I want to convert this to a ruby date time object (to save in the database). I have tried chronic, but without luck.
Can someone help me out, thanks in advance
No need for chronic. Simple Date will do.
require 'date'
s = 'Thu 17 Jan'
Date.parse(s) # => #<Date: 2013-01-17 ((2456310j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
You may also use:
s = 'Thu 17 Jan'
date = DateTime.parse(s)
I want to be able to parse a Time from a string in Ruby (1.8.7), where the string does not contain any time zone information. I would like to treat the string as though it were in any of a number of time zones specified in this type of format: 'America/New_York'.
Time string example:
'2010-02-05 01:00:01'
I have spent quite a while trying to figure this one out.
I did find a similar question, but its answer does not apply in my case: How do I get Ruby to parse time as if it were in a different time zone?
The problem with the above solution is that my time zones cannot all be represented in the 3-letter format supported by Time.parse (http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/time/rdoc/classes/Time.html#M004931).
Is there a good way to accomplish what I'm trying to do here?
Edit: Made my answer actually appear as an answer.
require 'active_support/all'
time = ActiveSupport::TimeZone.new('UTC').parse('2010-02-05 01:00:01')
puts time
puts time.in_time_zone('EST')
Here's what I came up with using the tzinfo gem as suggested, though it seems rather complicated and unintuitive to me. As an end result I get the time parsed as though it were in the time zone I wanted, though represented by a Time object in UTC. I can also display it in the time zone I want using tzinfo's strftime:
jruby-1.6.1 :003 > time = '2010-05-01 01:00:00'
=> "2010-05-01 01:00:00"
jruby-1.6.1 :004 > tz = TZInfo::Timezone.get('America/New_York')
=> #<TZInfo::DataTimezone: America/New_York>
jruby-1.6.1 :005 > time += ' UTC'
=> "2010-05-01 01:00:00 UTC"
jruby-1.6.1 :006 > time = Time.parse(time)
=> Sat May 01 01:00:00 UTC 2010
jruby-1.6.1 :007 > time = tz.local_to_utc(time)
=> Sat May 01 05:00:00 UTC 2010
jruby-1.6.1 :010 > tz.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z', time)
=> "2010-05-01 01:00:00 EDT"
I believe this will suit my needs, but I wonder if I can get the Time to actually be in the timezone above (instead of just UTC).
You have two options the way I see it. On the one hand you could map the format you wish to use in an array (or any other structure you wish) to the 3-letter format used by Time.parse.
The other option is using the tzinfo gem as specified by my which seems to do the job quite nicely.
>> tz = TZInfo::Timezone.get("America/New_York")
=> #<TZInfo::DataTimezone: America/New_York>
>> tz.now
=> Thu Jul 07 16:29:13 UTC 2011
>> tz = TZInfo::Timezone.get("Europe/Rome")
=> #<TZInfo::DataTimezone: Europe/Rome>
>> tz.now
=> Thu Jul 07 22:30:03 UTC 2011
I need to parse following String into a DateTime Object:
30/Nov/2009:16:29:30 +0100
Is there an easy way to do this?
PS: I want to convert the string above as is. The colon after the year is not a typo. I also want to solve the problem with Ruby and not RoR.
Shouldn't this also work for Rails?
"30/Nov/2009 16:29:30 +0100".to_datetime
DateTime.strptime allows you to specify the format and convert a String to a DateTime.
I have had success with:
require 'time'
t = Time.parse(some_string)
This will convert the string in date to datetime, if using Rails:
"05/05/2012".to_time
Doc Reference: https://apidock.com/rails/String/to_time
I used Time.parse("02/07/1988"), like some of the other posters.
An interesting gotcha was that Time was loaded by default when I opened up IRB, but Time.parse was not defined. I had to require 'time' to get it to work.
That's with Ruby 2.2.
convert string to date:
# without timezone
DateTime.strptime('2012-12-09 00:01:36', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
=> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:01:36 +0000
# with specified timezone
DateTime.strptime('2012-12-09 00:01:36 +8', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z')
=> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:01:36 +0800
refer to:
https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-3.1.1/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html
in Ruby 1.8, the ParseDate module will convert this and many other date/time formats. However, it does not deal gracefully with the colon between the year and the hour. Assuming that colon is a typo and is actually a space, then:
#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8
require 'parsedate'
s = "30/Nov/2009 16:29:30 +0100"
p Time.mktime(*ParseDate.parsedate(s)) # => Mon Nov 30 16:29:30 -0700 2009
You can parse a date time string with a given timezone as well:
zone = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)"
ActiveSupport::TimeZone[zone].parse("2020-05-24 18:45:00")
=> Sun, 24 May 2020 18:45:00 PDT -07:00
I'm trying to figure out how to extract dates from unstructured text using Ruby.
For example, I'd like to parse the date out of this string "Applications started after 12:00 A.M. Midnight (EST) February 1, 2010 will not be considered."
Any suggestions?
Try Chronic (http://chronic.rubyforge.org/) it might be able to parse that otherwise you're going to have to use Date.strptime.
Assuming you just want dates and not datetimes:
require 'date'
string = "Applications started after 12:00 A.M. Midnight (EST) February 1, 2010 will not be considered."
r = /(January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) (\d+{1,2}), (\d{4})/
if string[r]
date =Date.parse(string[r])
puts date
end
Also you can try a gem that can help find date in string.
Exapmle:
input = 'circa 1960 and full date 07 Jun 1941'
dates_from_string = DatesFromString.new
dates_from_string.get_structure(input)
#=> return
# [{:type=>:year, :value=>"1960", :distance=>4, :key_words=>[]},
# {:type=>:day, :value=>"07", :distance=>1, :key_words=>[]},
# {:type=>:month, :value=>"06", :distance=>1, :key_words=>[]},
# {:type=>:year, :value=>"1941", :distance=>0, :key_words=>[]}]